Allen Consulting Inc.

HVAC, centralized plant, and plumbing design for commercial, institutional, healthcare, and educational buildings, with a focus on cost-effective, energy-efficient systems.

• HVAC Design

  Mechanical engineers stay current on the latest technologies to deliver the most cost-effective and efficient systems available, covering hospitals, laboratories, universities, K-12 schools, athletic facilities, theaters, data centers, and emergency response buildings.

• Central Plant Design

  Extensive experience designing and retrofitting central plants, including air-cooled and liquid-cooled chillers, geothermal systems, thermal storage, heating water, steam and condensate, and energy recovery. Plant upgrades routinely deliver dramatic reductions in energy consumption even as served square footage grows.

• Plumbing Design

  Domestic water, sanitary sewer, grease waste, acid neutralization, stormwater, natural gas, laboratory gas, medical gas, central welding gas, and compressed air systems.

Power distribution, emergency power, lighting, low-voltage systems, and electrical studies for buildings ranging from schools and healthcare facilities to data centers and public safety operations.

• Power Distribution Design

  Utility power distribution for commercial, residential, religious, industrial, and educational buildings including K-12, higher education, vocational and technology centers, and data centers.

• Emergency and Backup Power Systems

  Mission-critical power for healthcare systems, Tier IV data centers, broadcast facilities, and government operations, including healthcare life-safety and critical branches, legally required standby for fire pumps and sewage systems, optional standby, critical operations power for 911 and emergency management centers, parallel and redundant utility-generator systems, and UPS.

• Lighting Design

  Architectural, theatrical, sports, and site lighting designed for maximum efficiency. Systems routinely consume 40 to 70 percent less energy than stringent energy codes allow, using software simulations with laboratory fixture data to deliver exactly the light levels recommended by IES standards while reducing initial material and long-term maintenance costs.

• Low-Voltage Systems

  Fire alarm and detection, data infrastructure, IT cabling, intercom and phone, CCTV, nurse call, intrusion detection, audio/video, and access control systems.

• Electrical Studies

  Arc-flash hazard studies, fault analysis, protective device coordination, power quality studies and remediation, and lightning protection design.

Energy management, co-generation, peak shaving, and life cycle cost evaluation to reduce operating costs and improve long-term value for building owners.

• Co-Generation and Peak Shaving

  Co-generation and peak shaving systems using generator paralleling gear and closed-transition transfer systems that save owners tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by reducing peak demand charges from utilities.

• Life Cycle Cost Analysis

  Evaluation of MEP system types to give owners concrete data when making large capital investment decisions, including payback analysis across different system alternatives.

Assessment of existing buildings and infrastructure. Services include heating and cooling load calculations, HVAC system assessments, existing building evaluations, and infrastructure assessments.

Planning support for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure in building programs. Allen Consulting helps owners and design teams organize phased facility upgrades.

Construction-phase engineering support for MEP projects. Services include submittal review, field coordination, and closeout assistance.